... while nearby a flock of fifty or so Whooper Swans was accompanied by a handful of Bewick's Swans ...
... and a Cattle Egret demonstrated its small size by flying in to land near some Little Egrets ...
At Pilling, still in the same county the water treatment works hosted a nice selection of common passerines including three Chiffchaffs, one of which was a clear tristis ...
Back in Cumbria at Siddick Pond, five adult Mediterranean Gulls made up for an unremarkable seawatch ... there were a few Goosanders and one female was constantly pursuing a male ... the male responded each time the female got close by performing a strange but highly stylised upending motion followed by some wing flapping ...
... I can find nothing in the literature about females pursuing males ... nor anything about the strange routine that the male performed ...
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